Emphasis Preaching Journal
You don't have to feel...
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You don't have to "feel like" loving somebody to love them; otherwise, as Paul Tillich once reminded us, it wouldn't be possible - or necessary - to command love (for how can something be commanded if it must be heartfelt first?)
1 John suggests, however, that once we are in the family of the Great King we will "feel like it," much like the small boy in a story told by Edward Chinn:1
1 John suggests, however, that once we are in the family of the Great King we will "feel like it," much like the small boy in a story told by Edward Chinn:1
